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A very classy response and a view I also hold. Georgia is due and has been due for a very long time. Though I may hold a minority view, I'm perfectly okay if Alabama doesn't win the National Championship every year. This season's Crimson Tide team is what it is. I remember the Stallings years in the Nineties where we won ugly on a consistent basis. I haven't forgotten those times.

If we don't develop a stronger running attack, opposing defenses will stack the box and shut us down. But it's early now and it depends to see how much our new quarterback adjusts throughout time.

I have forgotten what it is like to win ugly.

It just goes to show you the toll that NFL games take on the body, in my mind. I do hope that pro players wisely invest their money, recognizing they could have to enter retirement years before they may even imagine.

Follow the money.

It's not like those drunk Cajuns didn't sneak tiny bottles of Jack Daniel's into the stadium with them well beforehand. Even Saban, speaking of his time as coach at LSU, talked about smelling the bourbon as he ran onto the field.

Oklahoma and its residents don't like to see themselves as Southern. The same is true to a lesser extent with Texas. I even think Texas A&M is a stretch, as I do with Missouri.

I lived in DC for almost a decade. The Nationals' park is situated in a location that is easy to get to get to by public transportation, but in a bit of a rough area. Ticket prices, however are very reasonable. Before, they played in RFK stadium, which is falling apart and soon to be demolished. RFK stadium stopped being the home of the Redskins in the late 90s, I think in 1996. The Redskins took the same path as the Atlanta Braves has, locating its stadium out in the suburbs and well away from the city. It was a controversial move.

I don't think anyone's going to know how this plays out until it is fully instituted. But what I will say is that I think the term scholar/athlete is an oxymoron. What it really means is that now we don't own you body and soul quite as much as before. These kids sacrifice their bodies in the hopes that they'll make it to the pros.

I'm simply pleased to be an SEC fan today.

Tubbs is my U.S. Senator too, who already is developing a reputation for putting his foot in his mouth. I expect nothing less. College players, in the early days of the sport, were paid. Even a legendary coach never placed on probation like Bear Bryant paid his players in his early coaching career. I agree with the SCOTUS decision, but resolving this issue is much easier said than done. And as for parity in paying college athletes, haven't marquee players like quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and linebackers always received the lion's share of the praise? It takes a really spectacular offensive lineman like John Hannah to make it into the NFL Hall of Fame after a stellar college career. Part of it is the nature of the sport. Few people watch a pancake block, but most people follow the ball.

I'm amazed. I knew that when Saban was hired that we would win a National Championship--but six? And potentially more to come. Naturally, of course, this doesn't please the rest of the country, who want to see someone else at the top. But if this can produce a whole new generation of fans, even from outside the South, this is even more of a good thing.

Whatever it is we're calling Division I, II, III, and beyond these days have played in extended playoffs for years. I've never heard any complaints from those schools. There are pros and cons from every approach.

East Tennessee is debatably not the South. It is much more self-contained, much more like Appalachia than the Deep South. The culture is vastly different, which has presented significant recruiting challenges for a very long time.

It remains to be seen where college football offenses are headed. Pass-happy, certainly, but I still can't see no need for a good ground game.

I'm just happy that a hot-and-cold Alabama team is making a go of it at the very end. We'll see this afternoon and a little later how far Cinderella makes it.

Count me as someone who feels a compulsion to support female sports more than he does, but usually ends up just watching the Women's World Cup. But as for the Braves, maybe if they signed her up they could win more than just one World Series after blowing chance after chance.

It still comes down to who has the best players. When Saban's recruiting skills begin to drop off, Alabama will begin to lose close games it would have otherwise won.

Players should be paid their true value if there is to be any fairness in the sport.

The reason that legalized gambling hasn't existed in Alabama ever, be it sports or a lottery is because other states have used religion as a guise to keep their own coffers filled. They'd lose money that would otherwise line their own pocketbooks. But get the Southern Baptists and Conservative Presbyterians motivated enough, and there will never be legal gambling in any form in this state. They are mutually parasitic relationships.

I was not sold on Oats at the outset, but I am now.

Whew. That was a close one. Now it remains to see if we'll be a 1 seed or 2 seed.

Speaking as a Tide fan, I feared an Arkansas rematch. I feel much more confident that we'll win tomorrow against LSU.

far more CHANCES

Probst is a loose cannon. He coached at my high school and turned them into a powerhouse, but he has no morals or scruples and will do anything to win. The fact that anyone wants to hire him and put up with his drama always surprises me. He's been given far more chance than anyone ever should.

"Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money."-Gertrude Stein

*sigh* Why is it so easy for threads like these to be derailed by politics? An attack on one man isn't an attack on all men, or an attack on their personal politics.

fits of TEMPER. I'm not awake yet.

But this implies that a person is not trust-worthy enough to handle himself or herself without a chaperone. It's long been rumored here in Alabama that private parties were pitched for Bear Bryant, gatherings pitched by gatekeepers that concealed his heavy drinking and fits of tempter. But in those days, much of his private life was kept secret, especially his frequenting of dog tracks and gambling.

There is much more to this story. As to whether or not it will all come out with time is debatable. This makes me glad that Alabama decided to fire Mike Price before he set foot on a the field. He could have been even more of a liability had his behavior been tolerated.